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LADBROKE, KINGSCOTE and Co., Bank-buildings. J. E. HOVENDEN, Chairman of Corn mittee of Managment. tritish Coffee-houso, Jan, 29. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CXXI., WILL BE PUBLISHED TO-MORROW. John Murray, Albemarle-street. The publication of Tax Sun NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. WITPI WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1882. In the Hots of LORDS last night, additional papers relating to Canada were ordered. Lord MELBOURNE named Friday for taking the second reading of the Canada Bill. Lord BROUGHAM—(to the perusal of whose accompanying powerful and truly eloquent speech we invite our readers) — presented a petition, with between 16,0(0 and 17,000 signa tures, against the continuation of the negro-apprenticeship system, and praying that slavery in that form might be abolished after August next. He gave notice that he should, on a future day, present 13 similar petitions, and afterwards a motion for carrying the prayer of the petitions into effect. His Lordship entered into details of the extent to which slavery was still carried on, and the barbarities with which it was attended. He also expressed a fear that our vessels did not do their duty so fully as might be required, in consequence of the system of head-money. Some interesting conversation succeeded on the Slave Trade, in which Lord MINT() and Lord GLENELO took part. The Noble Secretary for the Colonies stated that the Foreign Se cretary was now engaged with Portugal to carry into effect the object of Lord BROUGHAM. The House adjourned before seven o'clock till Wednesday. In the House of Commons several petitions from different parts of the country were presented in favour of the Ballot, an extension of the Suffrage, and of other wholesome measures conducive to good government. Mr. WAKLET presented a petition from Brighton, praying the House to address the Crown for a mitigation of the sentence passed on the Glasgow cotton-spinners ; also a petition from the Radical Association of Marylebone, which he had with drawn last week, all the objectionable words being expunged, and the petitioners stating that it was not their intention to offer the slightest insult to that House. The petition having b'en laid ol the table, he said it prayed the House to hear counsel at the bar on behalf of the Glasgow cotton-spinners. He hoped that on a future occasion the House would hear a statement of the case from a person, not a counsel, and who would be disposed to do justice to all parties concerned. In compliance with a suggestion from Lord John Russell, the lion. Member then gaxe notice of a motion on the subject for Tuesday week. The Canada Bill was read a third time, and passed by a majority of 102 —eig h t Members only voting against, and 110 for it. On the motion of Sir G. GREY, a clause by way of rider, was previously ad,led to the Bill, to the effect that it might be altered or repealed during the present Session. The House adjourned at eight o'clock until Friday. The third reading of the Canada Bill was carried in he House of Commons, last night, by an overwhelm ing majority—only eight, out of a hundred and eigh teen, who divided on the Bill, voting against it. The Tories did not allow so favourable an opportunity for at tacking the Government to pass, without an endeavour to profit by it. Sir G. SINCL AIR led the van, while Mr. PETER BORT lIWICK brought up the rear. The onslaught of the Hon. Member for Caithness was not so terrible as even to disturb the equanimity of the occupants of the Treasury Benches. The Tory Ba ronet was repulsed by the Radical Member for Kil kenny ; whereas a groan, and a cry of " oh I oh !" wers the only responses which the House deigned to make to the fierce denunciations of the well-beloved of Evesham, the Hon. and eloquent PETER. But though the Ministers, very properly, took no notice of the attack made upon them last night, we re gret to say, that they have themselves to blame for hay ing provoked it. To the deep mortification of their friends, and the friends of free institutions, there is too gulch truth in the charges of vacillation and inconsis tency, brought against them by Sir GEORGE SIN CLAIR. The game of fast and loose which they have been playing for some time, must be exchanged for a more decided course of Mi- • nisterial action, or they will soon lose the confidence of every party. It will not do to denounce a measure one day and carry it the next. Lord JOHN RUSSELL is not a man of strong feelings and violent passions—he is not carried away by the warmth of his imagination, in the heat of debate, to employ language which he might afterwards wish to retract—and, therefore, we are quite at a loss to account for some of the blunders which his Lordship has committed since the commencement of the present Session. What, for example, could be more ill-judged than to pledge himself decidedly against the Ballot and an Extension of the Suf frage ? His Lordship's definite opinion upon these ques tions was not expected by the country, and it was sheer rashness to afford the Tories an opportunity of out bidding him, with a view to drive him from office. Let Sir ROBERT" PEEL only consent to give the Ballot, extend the Suffrage, or shorten the duration of Parlia ment, and—in consequence of the unfortunate pledge of the Noble Home Secretary—the Right Hon. Ba ronet has the Cabinet at his mercy. The same blun • der was repeated by the Noble Lord upon the Canada Bill, and we are bound in candour to admit, that its effect upon his popularity has been too great to be despised even by a Mi 'lister of the Crown. Regarded per se, the amend me,uts suggested by Sir ROBERT PEEL in the Cana& Bill with one exception, improvements, and there fore their adoption is desirable ; but surely we cannot draw from this circumstance a justification of the Nuble Lord's rash pledge to oppose them, with his subsequent adoption of them, on the ostensible ground of yieldin , to a hostile majority ? Had Lord Jots N RUS SELL been swayed, or had he even pretended to have been swayed, by a wish to improve the Bill when he consented to accept Sir ROBERT PEEL'S amend ments upon it, the country would have admired his :Lordship's candour, even while lamenting the blun .ders of Whig lawyers ; but to behold a Statesman in whom the people reposed confidence yield to the terrors inspired by the dread of a division, is a spec- p;to, 4 , (1-4r"N,xi; ter,' x • ~~ ~~~~v tacle to excite the strongest disanrohation. Such exhibitions have a most injurious influence upon the political morality of the masses, who are thence easily led to infer that professions of political virtue, principle, and consistency, are but the veils in which venal ambition shrouds itself from the hatred of man kind. In expressing our opinions thus freely of the blun ders and follies of the Whigs, it is very far from our intention to intimate that we would not regard the advent of a Tory Cabinet with the most serious alarm. The blundering of the Whigs is had enough —the more annoying because easily avoidable—but as we must choose between them and the peculating, despotical, and corrupt Tories, we prefer, a million of times over, a MELBOURN E to a PEEL Administration. But we will not on that account yoke ourselves to the car of any Ministry. We will not be deterred from an apprehension of diminishing public confidence eve❑ in the leaders of the Whig party, from censuring in strong terms any portion of their conduct which betrays a weak vacillating policy. In so acting we consider ourselves better friends of Ministers than those who, affecting to receive all their measures with rapturous applause, blind them to a knowledge of the impression which their conduct is likely to have upon the opinions and sentiments of the reflect ing people of England. The Whigs have committed many blunders, but none so fatal to them as a party as those of last week upon the Canada question. Such blunders are the necessary result of the temporiz ing juste milieu system, upon which their policy, in ternal and external, is conducted. Unless, as we stated above, this system be changed, Ministers cannot long hope to direct the Councils of their Sovereign. The Tories will ruin them by their support, and when they have succeeded in estranging from them the con fidence of the people, they will then hurl them with ignominy from office. In vain will they invoke the as sistance of the people in the moment of their peril, unless they now heartily co-operate with them against the common enemy. Lord JOHN RUSSELL must virtu ally, as well as nominally, direct the policy of the Cabinet thelloume of Commons, and there must be an end of the coquetries now carried on between the leaders of the Whig and Tory parties. The Whigs are nothing without the people at their back ; and the people will soon . . leave them in the lurch if the mean, coquetish absur dities and blunders of last week be repeated. Ireland is now the ?linisterial pedestal—the rock of their official salvation ; and dangerous indeed will be the position of the Government, if the measures for its tranquillization are left to be re-cast in the same mould in which the Canada Bill has been re-fashioned. We now come to the conduct of that section of the Radicals of which the Hon. Member for Kilkenny is the ostensible leader, and which figured last night as the " glorious minority" of eight against the Bill. However honest and well-intentioned may be the views of the Honourable Member for Kilkenny—and we would be the last to call in question the honesty of his intentions—we strongly repudiate the obstinacy with which he persevered in wasting the time of the House upon this Bill. When he found, and those that voted with him, that a fleeting minority of sixteen could only be mustered at a roll call of the Radical camp—a minority which has grown on every subsequent gathering— " Small by degrees, and beautifully less"— it was the excess of obstinate folly to persevere in making martyrs of those who preferred every sacrifice to the dishonour of breaking pledges, of which he assumed the right of being considered the interpreter. When Mr. Hums saw that opposition to the Bill was utterly hopeless, it was his duty to have consi dered the effect of a factious hostility to the Govern ment upon the character of such men as Mr. GnoTE and to have rested content with the putting his own sen timents and those of his friends upon record. Notwithstanding the recent most creditable attempts of the British Legislature to put down for ever the accursed system of slavery; notwithstanding the enor mous grant conceded by Parliament for that express purpose ; and the loud, indignant outcry raised on the subject from one end of the country to the other ; notwithstanding all this, the system, we regret to say, still continues, nay, flourishes, in more rank luxuriance than ever. For a long time we were sceptical on this point, thinking that those who maintained a con trary opinion had derived their knowledge from authority not entitled to implicit credence ; but the speech delivered by Lord 13nouGHAer last night in the Upper House—a speech, the main points of which were not denied by Lord MlNTO—has con verted our scepticism into certainty, and we are now compelled to adopt the disheartening conviction that man still persists in holding property in his fellow-man. The Noble and Learned Lord attri butes the continuance of this atrocious system in a great degree to the practice adopted of giving head-money for the capture of a slave-ship-- that is to say, a certain sum for each slave. In consequence of this practice, plausible enough in theory, but most injurious in act, the slavers are al• lowed to ship their human cargo, before any decisive steps are taken against them ; the forcible separation of friends and relations is permitted to take place ; the parent is torn from the arms of his child ; the wife from her husband ; all the home affections, all the en dearing ties and connections that bind the poor negro to life, and impart a charm even to the burning suns of Africa :—all these are rudely torn asunder ; he is loaded with chains like a malefactor of the deepest die ; marched down to the sea-coast ; shipped, just as one would ship a bale of goods ; thrust into a pestilential dungeon where the air of heaven is denied him ; hurried out to sea, a prey to the most horrid sufferings that can afflict human nature ;—and then, and not till then, steps are taken by the cruisers in his behalf ! Then only is it that they make attempts at his rescue—attempts, however, which in six cases out of ten, arc attended with the most frightful results ; for the slave-merchants finding themselves chased by one of the British cruisers, and apprehending the worst, toss their hu man ballast overboard by way of lightening the vessel and securing their chances of escape ; and in case any of their wretched victims should contrive to keep afloat, and so become the means of giving evidence against them, these infernal miscreants actually attach heavy weights to them, so as to ensure their instant destruction. Is this exaggeration ? Is this the wild, distempered language of romance? Would to God, that it were so ; but, alas, it rests upon the authority of many British naval officers, whose statements arc not to be impugned, for they have themselves been the eye-witnesses of such, otherwise incredible, atro cities ! Surely, it were high time that this sys tem of head-money were done away with, for it holds out a bonus to cupidity ; and aggravates the sufferings of those whom it is intended to befriend. But, say the advocates of strict law, what other plan can you pursue ? How can you seize ships, before you detect them dagrante delicto, with their human cargo stowed securely on board ? Our answer is, let the form of the ship, her fittings up, her hulk-heads, and her numerous preparations for the re ception of live stock, be sufficient evidence against her. To act otherwise, is to act upon a principle of maudlin squeamishness, defensible on no grounds what ever. With respect to head-money, let this temptation be taken away, and the sums be paid, not on the cargo, but on the tonnage of the vessel—a plan which would :-Icarcely fail to ensure the requisite dispatch. Agan, why not let light steam vessels, which can run up creeks and shallow waters, be substituted for the pre sent cruisers ? To he sure, this would be at tended with an extra expense for coals ; but the doing away with the head. money system, would cause this to be lightly felt. But suppose it otherwise, is the cause of humanity to be jeopardied for the mere consideration for a small extra SUM of money, after we have spent twenty mil lions in endeavouring to further that sacred cause? This would indeed be swallowing the camel, and straining at the gnat ! For his speech last night, Lord BitouGnAm deserves the heart-felt thanks of every well-wisher to humanity. He discussed his subject with all the skill of the statesman, and all the z2al cf the philanthropist. His peroration in particular, is one of the most splendid specimens of reason and feeling that even he has ever exhibited ; but indeed his whole speech was attempted to be answered in one point only—that, we mean, where he was supposed to impute neglect on some of our naval officers, a suppo .iition which Lord IVIINTo declared to be without foundation. 'We subjoin the Noble and Learned Lord's peroration, for iti is pregnant with truth and earnestness : The greatest of all slave dealers are the Spanish, Portuguese, end Brazilians, and we still continue quibbling with them on the meaning of a Treaty, and endeavouring to obtain from the Courts of Madrid, Lisbon, and Rio, the right to search their ships, while we suffer these enormous evils to con tinue. When I say we, I mean France and England—we suffer those hideous enormities to continue, when, if but an ordi dinary pirate disturbed the highway of the seas, we would not suffer the flags of those nations to protect him—we who threw ourselves single-handed into the breach, against ail Europe combined, when our clients wero the dethroned monarchs of the Continent—but now, when our clients are only the mil lions of Africa—when they have only the claims of right and justice, we pause ; if a word would do it, a word would not be long in being pronoun fed--if a wave of the hand would put it down, our consent would not be long withheld ; but when anything active—when anything beyond the waving of a finger is wanting to put down the greatest enormity that ever stained the annals of mankind—our tongue cleaves to the roof of our mouth—our arms are instantly paralized : we shrink, and blanch, and quail, before the very ancient and very powerful monarchy of Brazil—before the established and consecrated might of Portugal—before the consolidated, established, and all powerful empire of Spain in the old world.—( Hear.) My Lords, I trust we shall quail, and blanch, and faulter no longer--and I trust that one of the distinguishing glories of the reign which has just comraenced will be that this accursed traffic shall be at length put down. I would not surround the throne of this young Queen with the triumph of arms and with the glories of war. I would not build it on military or even naval greatness ; but I would have it founded on rights established, liberties ex tended, humanity secured, and justice promulgated to the world ; and I would have it go down to the latest posterity, that our youn g Queen, in the first year of her reign, a d orne d her country, fortified her throne, and embellished her Crown, by gaining the greatest triumph in putting down the worst of crimes—the greatest triumph ever mortal won—and the worst of crimes that ever man committed. We have inserted elsewhere a letter from Sir J. DE BEAUVOIR, on the New Houses of Parliament. We agree with our Correspondent in almost all that he says on this subject, though we feat it is now too late to offer objections, with any hope of their being listened to. The site of the new building is perhaps as bad as any that could have been selected. The only argu ment that was brought forward in its defence was, that it vas intimately connected with associations of a highly interesting nature, which it would be desirable not to dissever. It was urged that it would be a sort of sa crilege for senatorial assemblies to deliberate in any other chambers than those which had been sanctified by the inspirations of a CHATHAM, a BURKE, and a Fox. Now, we are as much alive to the benefit to be derived from these associations as our neighbours. ‘Ve wig even go so far as to allow—and it is surely a large concession—that by the simple circumstance of delivering himself under the same roof, Mr. BEN JAMIN D'ISRAELI may in tune arrive at such per fection in the art oratorical as to make us forget there ever was such a man as the elder PlTT—that Mr. BURKE shall be little better than a fool compared to the profundity which represents the Borough of Evesham—and that the mantle of Fox may fall upon ROBERT CAMPBELL SCARLETT ; but then it must he borne in mind, that every thing depends upon the identity of the locality. St. Stephen's Chapel and the old House of Lords are the only scenes on which the metamor phoses we have alluded to, or any similar ones, can be expected, by any chance, to take place. If the new liouses of Parliament do not occupy the precise sites of the old ones the charm is broken—they are good for nothing, askiadlers of latent eloquence, through the influence of association. Sir JOHN DE BEAITVOIR says they are not to stand on the same spot. Is this so or not ? If it is, the only reason for choosing a site attended with all manner of inconveniences is knocked on the head. In Sir Jo H N's remarks on gothic architecture, we think all sensible persons must concur. It is eminently unfit, both as regards inter nal arrangements and its external forms, for a parlia mentary structure in the smoky atmosphere of London. nv . Buildings in this style of architecture are adred, not for their beauty, for generally speaking they transgress all the principles of taste, but solely on ac count of their antiquity. They connect us with the ages that are past. This, however, is an attribute that cannot by possibility be communicated to a mo dern edifice. What, then, can be more absurd than to erect structures which ha ve ne ith er co nvenience nor beauty to recommend them, exce pt s uch beauty as cannot be acquired before the lapse of centuries ? We have before us an article of the forthcoming Eclecticßeview, on " The Canadian War, its Causes and Consequences." As this Review is known to be one of the most distinguished organs of the Dissenting body, having been formerly conducted by the cele brated ROBERT HALL, of Leicester, and now by Dr. PRICE, the historian of the non-Conformists, assisted by some of the most popular Baptist and Independent Ministers, we give the summing up of the article, which contains several novel and startling propositions as the views of a great section of the Dissenting body ; though, in some respects we should not altogether con cur with them. The Reviewer, after combatting the plan of an Elective Legislative Council, or House of Peers, goes on to submit the following views :—. There might be a plan, however, for forming a Legislative Council, which would embrace all those objects, and which would, we think, be popular even with the French Canadians themselves. Our plan of future government would be as follows :- 1. Let there be but one House of Assembly, or House of Commons for the whole of the British dominions in North America, to which representatives may be sent, according to population, front Lower Canada, Upper Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, &c, 2. From such House of Assembly let an upper House, or Legislative Council, be formed, to consist, besides the present councillors, of all members who have been returned for (say) 14 years by the same constituency. These gentlemen, en joying public confidence, may be supposed to be devoted to public interests ; and, with the experience they will have gained, may be fairly considered the best fitted to correct the errors of the lower House ; and, being made independent of both the popular and the monarchical influences, by holding; their seats for life, will form the be s t and read:est Court of Appeal to which both may refer. 3. The Executive Council, and all Placemen, save the Governor-General and his Secretary, should, as the present holders die, resign, or are dismissed, be North Americans by birth or adoption, and should sit in both Houses, or either House, as they might consider expedient from time to time ; but must not be permitted to vote, and, of course, teed not be returned by any Constituency. 4. The three Estates so formed, to be enabled, by an Act of the Imperial Legislature, to unite the British tenure of Cana lian lands, " free and common soceage," or which our readers will better understand as . freeholds in fee, w i t h t h e French law of descents, in cases of intestacy ; so that, in seek ing to induce them to abolish and abandon their feudal te nures, which promote fraud and prevent improvement, we may not deter thrill from so doing by the injustice and inhumanity of our laws of primogenii,ure. 5. To give to the House of Assersably ,71? formed, the full and entire controul and appropriation of all the Crown and other re;y - enees . , duties, &c., upon the distinct stipulation, that out of such revenues and iiuties 4 permanent Civil List should be forthwith passed. 6. To leave such three Estates all questions regarding cmi- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30. 1838. gration, official responsibility, the Wild Lanes, and the law of tenures for future settlers: but not to permit any existing tenure to be altered without the consent of all parties con- corned. 7. To have no state or dominant church whatever ; but leave all matters affecting religion or education, and the dis posal of all funds for the objects of either, to the decision, appropriation, and apportionment of the House of Assembly and Legislative Council—the Executive Council and Governor not to be permitted to interfere in the matter: 8. To give local charters to the different towns and dis tricts creating municipal bodies by popular elections , an d giving to such municipal bodies so created the sole right of declaring and maintaining that mode of tenure which each may deem the fittest for it own locality. We throw out these cursory and perhaps crude remarks with hesitation, but with great sincerity. We do not agree with the celebrated Jeremy Bentham, whose pamphlet is be fore us, in thinking it to be good for the mother country and good for her colonists, to be suddenly and for ever separated ; we have old-fashioned prejudices in favour of " ships, colonies, and commerce ;" and have no desire to leave two rival races to cut one another's throats in their struggles for supremacy. We may have spoken harshly of the selfish objects of the leaders of the French Canadians ; i so, our only excuse is that we are Britons, and that we feel as Britons towards our countrymen, whose properties, if not liberties and lives, would have been sacrificed, had those French Canadians triumphed. We may have expressed opi nions contrary to some of the leading principles of our own Constitution ; if so, cur plea must be that we are Reformers, and disposed to advocate every sound and well-considered change, that may conduce "to the greatest happiness of the greatest number." We may have spoken somewhat contemptu ously of the intelligence of a section of the Canadians; if so, we would not only make the antende honorable, but express a fervent hope, that they may frame such a Constitution for themselves, based upon such principles of popular lights ; re jecting all extrinsic glitter, and intrinsic guilt of our law of primogeniture ; eschewing all fallacies of Church craft and State craft ; bonefitting every one, without injuring any one ; —that the experiment being triumphant there, the mother may at last learn of the daughter, and Great Britain, instead of trying to create hereditary law-makers in Canada, may be taught how to reform or to dispense with those she has g, t at home. The Paris Papers of Sunday have all been received, together with advices from Madrid of the 22d instant. The OFALIA Cabinet was reported to be on its last legs ; and, most probably, will be succeeded by a Mi nistry under the control of Count TORENO. The Madrid elections have at last terminated, and strangely enough, CoRDOVA stands at the head of the poll. The French Journals contain no news save what will be found in the annexed extracts : A letter from Logrono of the pith has the following news : —" Four battalions, 150 horse and two field pieces left Lo grono today to proceed to Mondavia, to reinforce the divi sion of La Ribera. Espartero is still at Miranda; however, his arrival at Logrono is announced, and it is even said that he will command in person a demonstration against Estella. We learn positively that Don Carlos has really received six mil lions of francs in gold, which came from Russia through Hol land. It is asserted that this sum was brought by Admiral Ricord. We remark in a letter from Madrid of the 19th in the Phare de Bayonne of the 25th, the following passage respecting the expedition of Don Basilio Gar cia :--Don Basilio is still in the mountains of Toledo. However, a report received by the Ministry yesterday, states that this band was returning, and that it had entered Mora, ten leagues from Talavera de la Reina." The Phare de BayonrieOftVe - 2ctil, says, " The embar kation of the British Legion commenced at St. Sebastian some days ago." L'Euiope - says, " M. D'Appony gives a ball ; it is by order of his Government. This fete, as well as the little lau datory article of the Austrian Observer, is intended, we re peat it, to celebrate the approaching evacuation of Ancona." I3A YONNE, J.N. 23.—Don Carlos had not quitted Llodio on the 19th. The Christinos have failed in a new attempt to relieve Balmaseda. The Carlist division under tho command of Bobcda, has repulsed them."—Commerce. TORTONI'S—SUNDAY, JAN. 2S. HALF-PAST Two.—The Three per Cents. for thQ Ac count have improvad upon yesterday's (Saturday's) closing quotations. To-day they have been at 70. 521 c. and 79f. 50c. ; now they are buyers at the latter price. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 19. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Sharos 134234 —Allgemeine Zeilung, Jan 21. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Singapore Papers to the 17th September. We ex tract the following Commercial remarks:— " CoT-rox MANUFACTURES —Long cloth—There has been a fair de mand during the week, and considerable sales have been effected. " TURKEY RED CLOTH is getting more valuable, but very low prices offered. PRINTs continue to be disposed of on arrival, although there is no advance in prices; most descriptions arc ready of sale. " TWIST.—Grey Mule has been in good demand, and sales from re cent importations have been effected. " WOOLLEN3. — SmaII importations, per Sarah Bartlett. We do not hear of any sales being effected. " SCARLET LADIES' CLOTH will be wanted for the ensuing Buggis season. " BENGAL PIECE Goons.—Considerable sales made during the week. " OPIUM —Benares has been in good demand during the week at re duced prices, in consequence of the bonus allowed to purchasers of Opium in Calcutta." " EXCHANGES.—BiIIs on England at six months, with bills of lading, hare been negotiated to the extent of about 9001., at 4s. sd. per dollar. No other transaction has come to our notice. On London Navy and Treasury bills, three and thirty days, at 4s. 4d. per dollar, none are wanted. Private bills with shipping iiocuments, six months, at 4s. sd. per dollar, saleable." A Fort St. George Gazette Extraordinary was published on the 25th August at Singapore, with the intelligence of the death of King William the Fourth, and a proclamation, proclaiming Princess Victoria Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. The flag at the above settlement was hoisted half-mast high, and seventy-two minute guns were fired ; also a royal salute was fired, in honour of the accession of her Majesty, Queen Victoria, to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Bri. taro and Ireland. We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp, of yester day's date, with the Dutch prices of the 26th January. Two.and.a. Half per Cents , 53 5-16; Five per Cents., 101 3-16; Spanish, 19 3-16. TILE FUNDS. The great abundance of money which is afloat, and which cannot at present be made use of for commercial purposes, begins to find its way to the purchase of the British Funds, and in consequence of which there was a great scarcity of Stock in the Market yesterday, which caused an improvement in Consols of nearly 1- per cent.; but late in the afternoon the Market was not so good, and Consols receded from 021 to 921 1, both for money and time, which was the closing price, and opened this morning the same, with little doing ; Exchequer Bills, 2id. per day, 62 64 ; India Bonds 56 to GO ; those to he paid off 15 to 16 ; Bank Stock 206 207 ; India Stock 264 265. The Foreign Market is at present in a stagnant state ; Spanish Active WI i, with Coupons ; Portuguese 254 1 ; Three per Cents. 181 4 ; Brazilian 72i 704 ; Dutch Two.and.a.Half per Cents. 521 531. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cei.t. Red. 9'2% Ti % 1 Di'..to Born/3 :3 per Cart. Cons 02I( 14 2 ( South Sc, Stock — 34 per Cent........................ I Old Annnities ... ... New 34 per Cent lOOl, 100 3 re; Cent. Annuities, 1751._ New 5 per Cent.. Bank LongAnnuitiestoexpire Ditto soo 62 64 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 ........ . . ..... ...15 1 ,4 IA Ditto Small Oct. 10 iSc9 —, Ditto Commercial — pin Jan. 5, 1'460 ... Ditto Advertised..... Jan. 5, 1881 — sank %toll.. 1, Account — April 5, thN' — India Stock fft Account — Jan. 5, Mu...-. --I Consols for Acconn. (i 2 4 2 !,;, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds ~...... ......... Peruvian Bonds 13 alcrian Bonds — Ditto Account ........ — Ditto Account — PortuguccePornis _ Brazilian r?, - ,ncti: . ..... Uittc Account — ttitto New 13:mAg 244? 13.:e;,0s iiyrs Bonds ...... ...... Ditto Account ..... Dim. Acc.,int ............ ...... I Ditto, 1 per cent 1841% •hilhan 1;ot:do ..... Ditto Account ......... ..... .. RtilAian Bon4s, 192' , C •lurnbian Bonds. Ditto .Icconnt — Ditto Account ..... .••1•• •• C Bonds, :till t... 241( PAtto etalli ....... Spanigh Bonds Ditto Account I) • nish Itonds Acconnt — Ditto P.nrvia, 1 t. 19 1 i; I Ditto Accouut .... ...... ..".. Man Accerint Otc. , :k core& ..... . ....... .......... French, 5 per ctint.......... —f. Ditto ilonth, 1625 — -- 4 per cent. —l. Ditto Account .... ...... Alexican la- n' 5 per cent ——. Exci:ange Ditto Account Ditto, -6 per cent. ....... ..... Ditto Account Ditto Account — DAM, t r.cr mnt 1()2 1,4%qi Ncap0ii',...n.•....". PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Share. Candonga Mining Company 74 7% and Gloucester Railway Company I-2 , 4 3 4 5 __ _ B , rmiligham Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Company .......... 9.5 i n'e Great Western Railway Company 65 Bn,, 2 Brighton Railway Corrtpans London and Blackwall Railway i cridon and Greenwich .railway Company 2O 16% London and Croydon Railway Company Ditto Scrip 5 14 L; :.r. chester and Birmingham Railway 7 85i General Steam Navigation Company HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. The Consol Market, which had a firm appearance in the early part of the morning, has since rather given way; Consols, which were 92f, receded to 92—at present 92h ; Exchequer Bills, 2id, per day, 62 64 ; India Bonds 60 61 prem.; Bank Stock 206 ; India Stock 264 265. In the Foreign Market there is not a feature worth notice, and the prices are much the same as in the early part of the morning, with no bus i nes s doing. Spanish Active 19i a with Coupon s ; P or t uguese :-,81 ; Three per Cents., ISI ; Dutch Two.and.a-Half per Cents., 53h. In other Foreign Securities nothing done. Dublin and Kilkenny Shares, which were a few days ago at par on oL 10s., arc at present 1 /. 10 s. to 1/. 12s. 6d. London and Brighton have- receded from 8 to 71 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Aceount, 92A. A Public Meeting of the Electors of the Borough o f Southwark, will be will be held at the Town Hall, to-morrow, January 31st, at 12 o'clock at noon, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the Vote by Ballot, extension of the Suffrage, shorter Parliaments, and that D. W. Harvey, Esq.'s name be added to the Com mittee on the Pension List. John Humphrey, and D. W. Harvey, Esqs., the Members, are invited to attend. - - The Queen within a few days has written a letter to the Earl of Munster, expressing her intention to con tinue to the cltilde n or her dear and deeply r e g yetted uncle ; the same allowance given to them by•him; 171., twelve hun dred pounds per annum to each of the sons, and five hundred pounds per ann . = ti:) each of tile daughters, —*piing Paper, OXFORD CIRCUIT. Days and places appointed for holding the Lent Assize?, before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and Mr. Baron GURNEY. Berkshire—Saturday, Feb. 24, at Reading. Oxfordshire—Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Oxford. Worcestershire—Tuesday, March 6, at Worcester. City of Worcester—The same day, at the City of Worcester. Staffbrdshire—Saturday, March 10, at Stafford. Shropshire—Saturday, March 17, at Shrewsbury. Herefordshire—Friday, March 9.3, at Hereford. Monmouthshire—Wednesday, March 28, at Monmouth. Gloucestershire—Saturday, March 31, at Gloucester. City of Gloucester—The same day, at the City of Gloucester. CHANCERY COURT.--(THIS DAY.) The part-beard case of Crossloy v. the Dcrby Gas Light and Coke Company is still proceeding. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) This was general petition day, and the Master of the Rolls was occu pied the whole of the morning in hearing those that were unopposed. In consequence of the Rolls Court, in Chancery.lane, undergoini some repairs, his Lordship will on Thursday next sit in Lincoln's Inn. hall, for the purpose of swearing in solicitors and hearing short causes. Should his Lordship get through the short causes ou Thursday, he will not sit again till the Bth. QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN v. PEPPER.) Lord Dexmax gave judgment in this case. It was an application in the nature of a quo waranto calling upon the defendant to shew by what authority he exercise.' the office of a Freeman of the Borough of Mahlon, which had been argued during the present Term. It ap peared that the defendant was on the Freeman's list, but was not on the Burgess roll, his name having been expunged from the list by the Revising Barrister. The Court, after commenting on the facts of the case, observed that it was well understood that a quo warrant° could not lie unless the party were actually in possession of the office, and, therefore, the rule must be discharged.—Rule discharged. OIIRLY V. DUNBAR. Lord DAMIAN gave judgment in this case, which had been argued during the present Term. It was an action upon a policy of insurance, to recover a sum of 9.7,000/., brought by the Netherlands Steam Company against the Underwriters in London. A verdict had been given for the plaintiff, and a rule for a new trial was subsequently ob. tanned. With respect to the question of sea-wcrthiness, the Court was of opinion that the verdict of the jury was not satisfactory, and they would be very glad to have the question again determined. They would therefore make the rule for the new trial absolute, but with the under standing that the defendant should give up the second plea relative to The representation of newness.—Rule absolute. THE QUEEN V. FLETCHER. The COURT requested that the affidavits in this case which had been argued yesterday, would be handed up to them, before they pronounced their judgment. flI3 KING V. THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF THE BOROUGH OF ROCHESTER. In this case a rule had been obtained calling upon the defendants to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue commanding them to receive and detain in custody the body of Thomas Penny, until dis charged by due course of law. The ATTORISEIi•GENERAL now appeared to shew cause against the rule, which would shew their Lordships to what extraordinary lengths it was now attempted to go in applying the writ of mandamus. The body of Thomas Penny had Wen apprehended under and by virtue - . of a precept issued by the Clerk of the Court of Requests, of Rochester, dated the 26th Sept. It appeared to him that the remedy had been a!together mistaken, and that the parties should have proceeded by indictment as in the case of the Keeper of New gate, the Governor of the gaol of Lancaster, and others. The Act establishing a Court of Re quests in Rochester, was the 22,1 Geo. 3, and it provided that a debtor might be imprisoned for one calendar month (bnt by a subsequent Act, the period was reduced to twenty days), by order of Commissioners of said Court. The warrant was dated the 26th September, and iu November, long after the period of imprisonment had expired, the present extraordinary application had been made. It was an attempt by indirect means to compel the Mayor and Corporation for the benefit of the Commissioners of the Court of Requests of that city, to support a gaol. There was nothing in the Municipal Corporation Act, nothing in the 92d section of that Act, which would warrant the Corporation of leo chester in applying their funds for such a purpose. The statute of the 22d of Geo. 111. merely empowered the Corporation of Rochester to commit for nein-payment of the debt, or for contempt. Lord DENMAN—What arc the terms of the rule ? The ATTORNEY.GENERAL—It is to command the Mayor to keep this person in custody until discharged by due course of law. Lord DENms,m—We understood that the question to be decided was which was the proper gaol to commit the prisoner to. I think we had better hear Sir NV. Follett on the •other side. Mr. Justice Ltrriamate suggested that the proper mode of proceed ing was by indictment; and after some further discussion the other Judges concurred, and directed the rule for the mandamus to be dis.. charged.—Rule discharged. TIIF. KING V. lIYALL. In this case a rule in the nature of a quo warranto had been obtained calling upon the defendant to show by what authority he exercised the office of Councillor of the borough of Warwick. The ATTORNEY-GENER/a now appeared to show cause against the rule. It appeared that an election took place for four Councillors in the room of four that went out by annual rotation. Mr. Thibbetts was at the bead of the poll, and Mr. Hyall was fifth, and he would show that Mr. Thibbetts was ineligible, and therefore Mr. Hyall became the fourth Councillor. By the Act 1 Victoria, chap. 78, sect. 15, it was enacted that no auditor or assessor should be authorised or eligible to fill the office of Town-Councillor, and Mr. Thibbetts was in that position, being one of the assessors. The COURT, alter hearing Sir W. Follett and Mr. Austin in support of the rule, decided that the rule ought to go. The parties should have given notice at the time of the election if they meant to take such an objection.—ltule absolute. CRINIIVIAL INFORMATION.-THE KING V. TIIR PROPRIETORS OF THE NEWCASTLE JOURNAL. Mr. CRESSWELL appeared to show cruse in this case against a rule for a criminal information obtained against the proprietor and editor of the Newcastle Journal, for an alleged libel upon Mr. Russell Boultby. The publication complained of had taken p!ac• immediately after the last general election for the county of Sunderland, and Mr. Boultby was described in it as "a man without a God," "a reputed infidel," and a "Radical agitator." The subject was one which he (Mr. Cresswell) felt much pain in discussing, and he would content himself with reading the affidavits on behalf of the defendant, which he trusted would be sufficient to influence their Lordships' decision, without any observe to in. from him. The learned Counsel, after referring to the affidavit of Mr. Boultby himself, in which he denied the charge, proceeded to read extracts from the affidavits of a Mr. Wallace, Mr. Strollop, Mr. Rick man, and others, who had known Mr. Boultby fur a number of years, and who stated that in their opinion the sentiments they had heard occasionally expressed by him were those of a man who did not believe in the truths of revealed religion. Having read these affidavits, he (Mr. C.) would ask their Lordships of what Mr. Boultby complaioed. He complained that he was called an infidel. Did he complain that he was charged with not being a Christian ? if he did, his affidavit was entirely insufficient to prove that he was one. Did he complain that he was charged with hot believing in revealed religion ? His affidavits did not deny the charge. Did he complain that he was charged with disbelief in a future state ? He made no such complaint, or if he did, again his affidavit was entirely insufficient. Did he complain that he was compared to a heathen ? His own affidavit showed he was far more ignorant, without any of the hope that animated the heathen. His appeared to be the most miserable faith that man ever professed before the public. In him there was found— " No pleasing hope, no fond desire, No longing after immortality," teaching him that there was a world hereafter. And yet he came for the purpose of having a criminal information filet against the man who called hint an infidel. He (Mr. C.) trusted their Lordships would be of opinion that the application ought never to have been made, and that Mr. Russell Boultby ought to be made to pay for dragging Mr. Hernaman before the Court. Mr. BAILEY followed on the same side. The ATTORNRY.GENERAL having been heard in support of the rule, the Court conferred for a short time ; and Lord DENAIA:q observed, that if the affidavit of the applicant (Mr. Boultby) had been fully considered by the Court, it would scarce have granted the rule. The mode of attack resorted to by the editor of the newspaper was most scandalous, and the subject was one highly improper to introduce without absolute necessity, in the case of a popular elec_ tion. lie thought the parties who made imputations of that kind ought to be prepared to support them, precisely in the terms in which they were made ; which was not the case here, as the party had not fully justified himself. At the same time, taking all the circumstances into consideration, they did not think that Mr. Boultby had entitled himse:f to the particular interference cf that Court. The rule for the criminal information must be discharged, but without costs. EXCHEQUER CO URT.-(T HIS DAY JOHNSON V. HAMILTON. Mr. CRESSWELL appeared to show cause against a rule which had been obtained by Mr. Alexander, calling upon him to chew cause why a rule for a new trial in this case should not be discharged, why a writ of error should not be rescinded, and all proceedings stopped. He said the cause was one of great notoriety, but the only question now before the Court was as to which party was to be put to the expense of taking the record down to trial. Upon the former occasion the other party did so, and they wanted them to do so again. It was well known that his client was dead. Mr. ALEXANDER—That is what we are forced to deny. Mr. Baron A LDERSON—The jury, you remember, found that he was alive, because they had not seen hit funeral Mr. CRESSWELL—And if they had thems;lves buried him, with equal judgment might they again return the same verdict. Mr. Baron PARKE—The question seems to resolve itself Into a ques tion of security for costs. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—You must make the ghost find security; that Is the real object of the rule. CansswELL—My Learned Friend would have some difficulty in serving the rule. Ido not know which of the officers of the Court could do so. He might never return to give an account of his mission. The Cower were of opinion that Mr. Cresswell's client must go on, otherwise the judgment on the last trial must stand. The rule was therefore discharged upon an undertaking to try the cause at the next assizes.—Rule discharged. SHERIFFS' COURT-(THIS DAY.) PAUL V. COOKE. This was an inquiry on a Writ to ascertain what property belonged to the defendant, who had be;:n outlawed. Mr. JoNes stated the case. The plaintiff is an upholsterer, and the defendant is a gentleman, who, in the year 1835, resided in York-road, Lambeth, at which place the plaintiff delivered goods to his order, to the amount of 2141., which, however, was never paid, and proceedings in outlawry were taken. The present writ was to recover the property hack, and evidence would be adduced to show that it was still in the possession of the defendant. The plaintiff's foreman was called, and proved that he had seen the greater part of the goods in the defen `ant's house, and estimated the value at 1501. He, however, could 113 i; specify the items. The UNDER-SHERIFF said it was necessary *V er y item should be men tioned in the return of the jury, and he recommended the plaintiff to give the officer all indemnity, and take possession of the goods at once when an inventory could be made out. This was agreed to by the plaintiff`, CRIMINAL COURT-('PHIS DAY). OLD COURT. (Before the RCCOADEII and Alderman Sir C. MAasitaLL.)_ —.— Several cases of larceny were disposed of this moping, none of which possessed any public interest. _ . . .. ()no prisoier, O! being convicted, earnestly besought the Court to send him out of the country. lie had no friends, he salt:, here, but in Van Diemen's Land his father and mother and three sisters—t•vo of them married—wero already located. The ItECtoitinit said a prisoner cool(' not Le allowed to choose his own punishment, and sentenced him to six months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. Afer the prisoner was ranoved the Recorder observed, it was lamentable that a belief should be prevalent that Van Dieman's Land was such a desirable place to be sent to. NEW COURT. (J - 3eibre the COMMON SERGEINT.) Leartrui Guy was indicted for stealing half-a-crown, the property of his master, Thomas gratwick. It appeared from the evidence adduced that Mr. Gratwick, entertain_ log suspicions of the honesty of the prisoner, got ono of his friends to mark some half-crowns, with which he went to the prosecutor's shop and made some purchases- One of the half_crowns so marked was found in the possession of the prisoner, The Jury found him guilty, but recommended him to mercy, in con. sequence of the excellent character which he received from several most respectable persons. _ll . oanEnr PLATE.—Alfred Parnell was indicted for stealing hirteen spoons, value 61., the property of Thomas Kettle, his master. Ti.e prosecutor deposed that he carried on the business of linen_ draper at Coggeshall, in Essex. Being in want a shopman, he put an a,:veitisement in the pap rs in October last to that effect. The prisoner presented himself as a candidate for the situation, and produced a letter of recommendation from a person named Holmes, who, he stated, re sided at Brentford, in which his character was described as most ex. cellent. Mr. Kettle received him into his service, and made no appli cation to Mr. Holmes to ascertain whether or not the letter was genuine. When he had been about ten days residing with him, the prisoner stated that his mother was taken ill, and that he should be obliged to leave him. His wages were accordingly paid him, and after his departure it was found that the spoons, which had been kept in a drawer in Mr. Kettle's bed-room, had been stolen, and that the recommendation which he had produced as that of Mr. Holmes, was no less than his own character of himself. A woman of the name of Nixon deposed to having seen the property in the possession of the prisoner, and on her evidence he was convicted. It appears that at the last Sessions the prisoner was evidence against Nixon's husband, who was convicted of a robbery, and sentenced to transportation for seven years. The prisoner himself had succeeded in getting into nine or ten places by means of false characters, in all of which he had committed robberies. Mr. Sergeant Arabin observed to him, when he appeared as evidence on Nixon's trial, that he would eventually succeed in getting himself sent out of the country, a pro_ phecy which seems likely to be verified, as the Court on the present occasion intimated as much to him. 130W-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) Henry Rosman, a well-known member of the swell mob, was placed at the bar by Kirkman, of the F division, charged with frequenting Drury-lane Theatre for the purpose of committing felony, The constable stated that while on duty last night, at half.past twelve o'clock, in Russell-street, he saw the prisoner go into the Theatre by the pit entrance. As he well knew the prisoner to be an out-and-outer, he followed by thessme entrance, and found four of the fraternity stand ing in the passage leading to the avenue of the Theatre, but on seeing him they rushed out, and the prisoner went into the square leading to the Rotunda. He still kept him in view, and traced him through the side slopes, rushing against the company leaving the Theatre, and pressing himself against several respectable females. Considering it then quite time to interfere, he took the prisoner into custody, and on searching him, found a gold watch and 5/. 10s. He had constantly seen him in company with thieves. Mr. TWYFORD inquired if the Prisoner had been convicted on any former occasion ? Tyrrell, the gaoler, 'roved that he had been twice convicted—once at Queen square, and also at this office, when he was sent for thr.,e months to hard labour. Mr TWYFORD said another experiment of the same sort should be tried, in the hope that it might bring about a reformation; which was rather improbable. The prisoner applied for a part of his money to be restored to him. Mr. TwicFoßo----Not one farthing shall be given up, but it shall be appropriated for your support, to prevent your being a bug :en to the county for the next three months. QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY ) Thomas George, a coachman, in the service of Sir Andrew Leith Hay, was charged with stealing a quantli.: - of hay, the property of Mr. Elmore, and J. Knight with receiving the same, knowing it to be stolen. Police Constable 7 V stated, that he met the prisoner Knight yester day evening, in Coley-lane, Fulham. He was driving a pony and cart, i❑ which was a quantity of hay. Witness stopped him, and asked him where he had got it from ? and he replied that he had purchased it for three shillings of Sir Andrew Leith Hay's coachman. He then took Knight to Sir Andrew's residence, where he also saw the coachman, who admitted having sold the hay. Sir Andrew said the hay was not his property, but belonged to Mr. Elmore, of Piccadilly, of whom he jobbed his horses. He then took them both into custody. The Foreman in Mr. Elmore's establishment attended, and identitled the hay, which he valued at three shillings; the greater part, however, was refuse —The prisoners admitted the offence, and were remanded. James Heath, a notorious young thief, was committed upon a charge of stealing a brass candlestick from the Two Chairmen public-house, Warwick-street, Cowper-street, the property of Mr. Malcomb, landlord of the above house. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JAN. 99.—Wind S. S.W., moderate.—Several light colliers from the Westward passed during the day to the Northward. The Deal Pilot Cotter sailed this afternoon for her station off Dungeness. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 29. Wind S.S. W. to S.E , fine.—Arrived none. Sailed for London the Hope, Perfect, Dove, J. W. Collingwood, Crite rion, Skeen, Emsworth, Hampshire, Bognor, Rydope, Chill, Content, and William; and the Greenwood, for Sunderland. PrAstourn, JAN. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Peace, Byron, and Sprightly, Newton, from St. Michael's; Iris, Gamble, from Smy'sma ; Remy and Louise, from St. Domingo; Adelaide, Lehaire, from, Bor deaux ; and her Majesty's ship Lynx, from Portsmouth. Sa',:ted the Souvenir, Carter, and Two Sisters, Thomas, for London. TIP:: Breeze, of and from Plymouth, Toxer, for St. Michael's, was spoken ma the 10th instant, in lat. 47. long. 8. 40.. with loss of mainmast, and, bearing IV for this port. FALMOUTII, JAN. 28.—Wind S.E. to S., fresh gale s ,—Arrived the Furth, Penton, from Seville, with loss of jibboon and sails split; William Gray, Gray, from Oporto; Gateshead Bark., from Gergenti ; Ramona (steamer), King, from a cruise. Arri:ved off, Colombian. Pritchard, from Singapore, in a very leaky stat 2; Demerara Planter, from Demerara; Cecilia, from Manilla. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 29.—Wind S E., moderate, thick weather.—Ar rived the Hardware, Williams, from Porto Cabello ; Mattallesal, Deen, from New Orleans; John Dunlop, Setfietd, from Savanna. COWES, JAN. 29.—Arriven the Fal:;on, Middlemist, from Madeira. WIGHT, JAN. 29.—Arrived off; the Utien, from New York. JERSEY, JAN. 27. Arrived the Pallas, Dolbell, from Newfoundland ; Rolla, Selkiery, from Messina. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The John Bull, from Liverpool, for the Mediterranean, out ten days, 16th Jan. off Cape St. Vincent's, by the Gateshead Park, which vessel reports the arrival at Gergenti, on the Ist Jan., of the bark Adrastus, from Marseilles. The brig Star, of London, for Malta, and Mary Ann, of Leith, for Tobago, on the 19th Jan., in lat. 46. 20. N. lon. W. 40. W., by the Turk. The American ship Nili, of Portland, from the Havannah, for Havre; Norway, bark, from Alicant, for Christiansand ; bark Colombian, of Liverpool, from Singapore,f or London, in a very leaky state, by the Ramona (steamer). No people verify a saying of Bonaparte's more than the French. " From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but a step." The Lower Chamber having discussed a ll the great questions of European politics in the debates on the Address with much eloquence and ability, have been occupied for some days in settling a little matter of do mestic economy—the cut of a deputy's coat. Some will have no peculiar dress ; others will have a badge that they may be recognised by their constituents; and others will have the old half-court, half-police dress worn in the reigns of Louis XVIII. and Charles X. ; and such a difference. of opinion prevails, that the discussions on their settlements in Africa, or the proposed subsidy to Spain, appear in comparison. as trifles. We do many foolish things in this country, but such puerilities as these have long ago disappeared, and what is listened to with gravity in France would be met hero with universal derision. Dean Swift was right when, in sati rical jest, he described the mighty passions excited in, the human mind, even by disputes about eating an egg. A new species of paper currency appears by the American papers to have been springing up, if not generally in the Union, in New York at least. This currency consists of " certified checks," or checks " accepted" on presentation at the banks, which, after such certified acceptance, pass cur rent from hand to hand. The holder by whom the check is presented has the option of receiving the amount in bank bills or notes, which of course, until the resumption of specie pay ments takes place, will be regarded as of no more solid value than the certified check, being in effect no better than the exchange of one piece of paper for another, with, so far as the bank is concerned, the same names as security. In the case of the check, however, there would be the additional security of the drawer and endorsers. To such an extent had the use of this sort of paper obtained in New York, that, it is stated, " a great portion of the daily transactions among the banks h a ve been conducted on certified checks." It was calculated that the daly amount of business represented by these checks, was equal to 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 of dollars, and so con';e nient were they said to be found, that it was thought wat un likely, with some "improvements" upon them, they m ight come to constitute a more permanent portion of the, commer cial currency of the city of New York. The har.iks there, it has been shown by their monthly statements, ha,a been curtail ing for some time past the issues of their totea, as also had been the case in other parts of the United States, but it would see peViey must be materially counteracted m to the whole or any so bi pr t u h d e en c t i i r a c l u a la l t i i ; of consi derable extent of other paper in lieu of that withdrawn. It appears that money lava been getting exeedingly scarce through the withdrawal or diminution of the rote currency, and to this wits attributed the increase or substitution of the " certified checks" which, it is stated, now circulated proba bly to as " great an extent" as bank notes. Considerable alarm has been created amongst o ur mercantile circles connected with the African trade, by the statements which have been put forth, announcing that a great number of the white population had been murdered by the b'acks, who had revolted at Cape Coast Castle. The ac counts have been much exaggerated, but to a great extent we are enabled, we regret, to confirm them, by a letter, froin which we extract the following summary ; arid as the letter states thst the British Government are somewhat impVicated, and that our settlements on that coast may be harzarded, it deserves the immediate attention, of the Colonial Office. The accounts reach to the 16th of November last, and state that the affair took place at Elmina, in the Dutch territory, but near to the British settlement. It appears that the Dutch Governor of Elmina, Tonneboeyer, and six other European efileera of the Dutch settlement, fell a sacrifice to the barba rity of the natives, over whom the Dutch Government have ruled 150 years. Altogether, 40 white soldiers, 60 labour ers, and a 0 recruits from Batavia, besides several unarmed in dividuals, with the exception of three or four raade prisoners, were slaughtered, and the blacks exhibited parts of the bodies at the market of Tacorary. This act of dreadful revenge is said to have arisen out of some old disputes between the na tives and the whites, and the infliction of a tine of 40 ounces of gold dust upon Bonsoe, the chief of Ahanta, a district on the coast between Axim and Sacomidee, b:; the former Dutch Governor, Last. 'rho late Tonne2aoeyer was much blamed for his rashness 11i this affair, the chief Bonsoe and his aid herenta bad, it was said, resolved to throw themselves u pon British protection, Trade was quite suspended, and the let ter adds, that unless the deaths of the whites arc revenged, Cape Coast will no longer be tenable by the two European parties. Mr. J. Hook has been appointed Governor and Com mander of Gambia by our Government.